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Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.
- Source :
- American Economic Review; Jun2012, Vol. 102 Issue 4, p1206-1240, 35p, 12 Charts, 3 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets are used to predict consumption; community targeting, where villagers rank everyone from richest to poorest; and a hybrid. Defining poverty based on PPP$2 per capita consumption, community targeting and the hybrid perform somewhat worse in identifying the poor than PMT, though not by enough to significantly affect poverty outcomes for a typical program. Elite capture does not explain these results. Instead, communities appear to apply a different concept of poverty. Consistent with this finding, community targeting results in higher satisfaction. (JEL C93, I32, I38, O12, O15, O18, R23) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00028282
- Volume :
- 102
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Economic Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 76460680
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.102.4.1206